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SUMMARY:How to Present Yourself and Your Artistic Practice
DESCRIPTION:Join Nadia Trudel for a 2-hour workshop on finding the words for your creative practice. \nCreating art is innate\, but how do you talk about it with committees\, curators\, or even your grandmother? Knowing how to effectively describe your artistic practice is an essential skillset for a professional artist. \nBy drawing on narrative tropes and archetypes\, this workshop will guide participants through the process of writing two key texts for promoting and sharing their work: the artist statement and the artist bio. Through an overview of examples\, group discussion\, and hands-on writing exercises and peer workshopping\, participants will draft accurate and dynamic artist bios and statements that capture their voices. \nPlease bring a variety of physical or digital examples of your work. \n  \n May 20\n 10 AM -12 PM\n Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705\n🎟️ Places are limited\, please reserve your spot by emailing Nadia at nadia.trudel@concordia.ca\n\n\n\n\nABOUT NADIA TRUDEL:\n\nNadia Trudel is is a Montreal/Tiohtià:ke based writer and editor. She’s written about culture\, music\, art\, fashion\, books\, and LGBTQ2S+ issues for outlets including CBC\, Dazed\, MTV News\, Polyester Magazine\, Xtra\, Maisonneuve Magazine\, the Milieux Institute\, Clash\, KOCCA Canada\, Cult MTL\, and the Montreal Review of Books. Her short stories and creative non-fiction have appeared in Headlights Anthology\, Soliloquies Anthology\, and Pixie Literary. Previously she was an editor at Phidal Publishing\, Yiara Magazine\, Lignes de Fuite\, and Scatterbrain Magazine. She holds a BA in Journalism and Creative Writing from Concordia University and is currently pursuing an MA in Media Studies at UQAM.
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LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
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SUMMARY:Milieux Annual General Meeting and Pizza Lunch
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our Annual General Meeting on May 20th! \nCome enjoy some pizza while we showcase the proofs of the latest Milieux Annual Report (2024-2025). \n  \n May 20\, 2026\n12-2 PM\nMilieux Resource Room EV 11.705
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/milieux-annual-general-meeting-and-pizza-lunch-3/
LOCATION:Milieux Resource Room EV 11.705
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SUMMARY:GAIAi: Artificial Infantilism and the Prompt Poetry of Unblocking all Keywords
DESCRIPTION:Focusing on the concept of General Audience Iterations Artificial Infantilism (GAIAi)\, Ian Haig and Adam Zaretsky will examine how contemporary AI systems are shaped by content moderation\, platform governance\, and cultural expectations around safety and accessibility. \nCensorship and AI\, obsolete models\, using AI the wrong way\, ugly AI and the interior body as an antidote to the idealised perfection of exterior bodies on Instagram. AI as haunted images culled from the collective unconscious\, images that don’t belong and are not of this world. AI slop as abject contamination\, algorithmic parasites\, transhumanism gone bad and AI as noise and error in the system of the AI overlords of Palantir and the emerging AI control grid for the Useless eater class. AI as an occult technology invoking  the residue of culture\, the leftovers and the dead. \nFeaturing Ian Haig and Adam Zaretsky\, the discussion will explore how these forces influence both the production and reception of AI-generated media. The speakers will address how algorithmic filtering\, blocked keywords\, and platform policies shape aesthetic outcomes and public discourse. At the same time\, they are considering the unexpected visual forms emerging from AI systems—ranging from polished synthetic imagery to distorted or unsettling outputs that challenge established aesthetic norms. \n  \nABOUT THE SPEAKERS: \nIan Haig is a multidisciplinary artist working across video\, sculpture\, drawing\, installation\, technology‑based media\, and mutant AI. His practice challenges the idea that low or base cultural forms lack value\, and has long focused on visceral\, body‑centred themes. Over the past thirty years\, his work has examined the intersections of contemporary media\, technology\, and the human body\, addressing attraction and repulsion\, fanaticism\, transhumanism\, and the degenerative effects of pervasive technologies. Haig has exhibited internationally at major institutions\, including the Museum of Modern Art (New York)\, Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris)\, the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (Melbourne)\, ACMI\, GOMA Brisbane\, and Artec Biennale (Nagoya). His video work has screened at over 200 festivals worldwide. He is also an experienced curator\, notably of Unco and Very Unco\, at the Torrance Art Museum\, Los Angeles. \n  \n  \nAdam Zaretsky\, Ph.D.\, is an experimental bioartist and former researcher in MIT’s Department of Biology. His work critically examines the legal\, ethical\, social\, and libidinal dimensions of biotechnology\, with a particular focus on transgenic humans. Known for his hands‑on bioart laboratories\, Zaretsky creates participatory spaces for experimental bioart production and discourse. He has taught internationally at institutions including San Francisco State University\, SymbioticA (University of Western Australia)\, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute\, Leiden University\, and the Waag Society. Since 2016\, he has served as Head of Research at Nadlinc\, and since 2022 as a Research Consultant at BEAK in New York. Since 2024\, he is a Visiting Professor at Ionian University\, Creative Director of TTTlabs and TTTfellows\, and part of the EU‑funded Rewilding Cultures project.
URL:https://milieux.concordia.ca/event/gaiai-artificial-infantilism-and-the-prompt-poetry-of-unblocking-all-keywords/
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